Hacker Says

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.

Anonymous

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Dennie van Tassel

Deleted code is debugged code.

Jeff Sickel

You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.

Alan J. Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution.

Alan J. Perlis

Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.

Larry McVoy

A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.

Paul Graham

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Nathaniel S Borenstein

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Jamie Zawinski